Quote of the day
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Washington Allston
Born: November 5, 1779
Died: July 9, 1843 (aged 63)
Bio: Washington Allston was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting.
Known for:
- Lectures on Art, and Poems (1841)
- Lectures on Art--poems